Hi Dana,
Amazon S3, http://aws.amazon.com/s3/, is a perfect tool for setups like
this. Quickly, the process involves uploading video files to an S3 bucket
(there are a few solid desktop tools for this) and then telling S3 you want to
create a "streaming distribution" out of that same bucket. That's basically it.
You only pay for the transfer and storage you use (it's cheap). Your videos are
served over Amazon's global content delivery network. This is exactly what we
are using to drive ArtBabble video. On the backend they are using Adobe's
Streaming Media Server which support Flash, H.264, and a whole lot more.
- Charlie
Charles Moad
Director IMA Lab
Indianapolis Museum of Art
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Indianapolis, IN 46208-3326
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From: mcn-l-bounces at mcn.edu [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of
Mitroff Silvers, Dana
Sent: Wednesday, February 02, 2011 7:42 PM
To: 'MCN listserve'
Subject: [MCN-L] video delivery networks and museums
Hi everyone,
At the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, we are looking into licensing an
online video platform such as Brightcove to serve all of our video and audio
content, and are wondering what other institutions are doing.
Is your institution using an online video delivery network?
Which one?
What do you like and dislike about it?
Currently, all of our video and audio content is Flash and is delivered from
our site. The primary reason we are looking into moving all of our media to a
hosted delivery network such as Brightcove is so that we can upload all our
existing media to one place and let the network deliver the appropriate format
to any mobile device or platform.
We have considered just using YouTube, but because of rights issues with much
of our content, some of our content can only appear on our own site.
Would love to hear what others are doing in this space!
Thanks,
Dana
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San Francisco Museum of Modern Art
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San Francisco, CA 94103-3159
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